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Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jump Up è un magnifico esempio di energia e di forza espressiva. Registrato il 30 agosto del 1980 al festival di Willisau, originariamente venne pubblicato su vinile nel 1981. Siamo lontani dalla stagione in cui la coppia Lyons - Murray suonava in trio con Cecil Taylor (e, assieme a Taylor, suonò anche con Albert Ayler, a ...
Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up
by Glenn Astarita
Renowned Cecil Taylor trio alumni, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray reunited in Switzerland and summoned young bass wunderkind John Lindberg for a tour de force captured live at Jazz Festival Willisau in August, 1980. Reissued and remastered, this release highlights the band's unbridled energy and resounding clarity, abetted by the crystalline audio. It ...
Wandering Visions: The 2011 Vision Festival
By Steve Dalachinsky “a paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest." —Percy Shelly For 16 years the Vision Festival has led a nomadic existence. Wandering from one venue to another, this brave band of Visionaries,which I am proud to be a part of, with the ever present, stalwart & persistent Patricia Nicholson Parker at ...
Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
Eric Zinman: The Piano as Endangered Species
by Brian Wrentham
For over twenty years, pianist/composer Eric Zinman has been crafting his own approach to his instrument, since meeting trumpeter Bill Dixon in the '80s. He views himself as an ensemble player, who plays to include; in addition to his own writing, his trio disc, Eric Zinman Ensemble (Cadence, 2006), features short pieces by John Voigt, Laurence ...
Vision Festival 2010: Day 6, June 28, 2010
by John Sharpe
Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Leandre, Roy Campbell, Mat Maneri, Wadada Leo Smith, Gunter “Baby" Sommer, Joe Morris, Mike ReedVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 28, 2010With only ...
Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz
by AAJ Staff
[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...
Cecil Taylor: This Music is the Face of a Drum
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine (April 1971)]As an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Cecil Taylor has finally been able to realize a long-held ambition--the command of a large orchestra. Comprised of fifteen of his students (and augmented by Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Leroy Jenkins ...
Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the '60s
by Robert Levin
[Editor's note: Revised and expanded here, this piece originated as an oral essay for an installment of the Cosmoetica Omniversica internet radio series on the arts and sciences. The series was hosted by Dan Schneider and Art Durkee.] More or less officially unveiled with the first New York appearance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet ...
